Rare, Uncommon, And Beautiful Mushrooms Found In Michigan

[Music] do [Music] i don't know why it just occurred to me that i should be filming some of these rare mushrooms that i've come across but i should be and so i decided that i'm going to do uh rare and uncommon and even the oddly beautiful or at least in my opinion the oddly beautiful mushrooms of michigan don't know what the title is going to be yet but this is the beginning of it this particular tree i've been coming to now for well over a decade and i've been harvesting one specific species that's relatively rare now it doesn't bloom on this tree every year because i check it every year it does skip years but there are also times that i've harvested this particular mushroom off this tree on multiple occasions in a single season last year it was on the other side of the tree a few years before it was almost too high for me to reach this is a very large black oak now there are other places that i found this mushroom but i usually only find one or two specimens a year and i have seen it on smaller scrub oak in the northern part of michigan but where dawn and i now are in southern michigan this big black oak is where i continue to harvest this mushroom it's one of my favorites to fry and i wish i could find more of it we have had a drought and i noticed the mushroom sprouting three weeks ago so this mushroom has been here for three weeks and we just now got a bunch of rain and it hasn't gotten any bigger so i decided it is time for me to harvest this this is fistulina hepatica it's uncommon and normal circumstances this is blood red and will get very large and kidney shaped the underneath of this will be a whitish pink when you cut it in half it'll be streaked like steak it has several common names beef steak polypore ox tongue i've heard it called beef tongue fistula hepatica it's a very very portobello tasting mushroom i just love it it's one of my favorites it's on dawn's lower end of the list but it's definitely one of my favorites sometimes when you cut it you can really smell it but you can see this steak like color where there's a streak here well these streaks will be diagonal in here and it'll look like you just cut into a steak they're a very wet mushroom they can get relatively large in good years but because of the drought and because i've seen this wither away on me on years that i've watched it grow and experimented with it i don't trust that it's going to get any bigger so i'm harvesting it for the skillet a rare and very beautiful mushroom normally it is as red as these edges right here on top but it feels like a tongue on the bottom and it's velvety on top as well pink to white pore surface red to dark brown on top very easy mushroom to identify prefers oak grows on hardwoods let's go see another rare mushroom this is the velvet foot packs as it gets older this fuzzy brown color will fade away it has a very thick voluptuous stem usually it grows in groups and clusters i think the reason i found one solitary mushroom is because of the drought that we're experiencing here in southern michigan but it has an enrolled margin a lot of times it'll become base shaped some people would refer to it as oyster-like but this particular mushroom is not an oyster and this brown fuzz gives it its name velvet foot packs and as it ages this furriness will disappear decurrent crowded gills and it can have an oyster like top sometimes it can be off center offset when they grow in clusters and clumps usually on buried or dead wood the velvet foot packs this one i'm going to call uncommon not necessarily rare let's go see another we got really lucky aside from the mosquitoes which are bothering my camerawoman dawn and she's wearing a mosquito net i probably should be doing the same thing the reason we got really lucky is because i found a very rare mushroom that i i only get to see like once every three or four years and we just happen to be shooting a video on chanterelles we have the false chanterelle which we don't like the term false anything so the latin name is hydro let me think about this it's a hard one to say hydro opsis hydropheropsis that's it hygropharopsis or antiqua hygropharopsis or antiocha say that with me [Laughter] i happen to have chanterelles because that's what dawn and i are picking and if you look at the tops of these chanterelles they resemble the falshan trail now the distinguishing difference this has kind of a velvety top it's not sticky like hygroscipy but this is hydropheropsis now this will have gills whereas the chanterelle have ridges let's see if we can get a close-up of these gills can see the blade of the gill when you cut the mushroom in half but also it's vase shaped like a chanterelle and the current or slightly to current gills but one feature to really notice is just how crowded these gills are and when you strike them with the knife they wave they move which demonstrates blades versus ridges on a real chanterelle now these yellow ones are smooth so there are no ridges or folds so i'm going to use a cinnabar chanterelle to show you the difference because the golden chant rail will have ridges that resemble this actually i'm gonna put that other one in the light too hopefully that sun isn't too bright now chanterelle has stringy flesh and if we're to take some of this skin and we peel we notice that those ridges are part of the mushroom they're not separate from the cap or a different part of the cap like gills are gills are blades these are folger ridges those are the major differences between cantarellas and other genus of mushrooms so finding the high growth paropsis we can see these really extremely crowded gills that wave nice huh i feel lucky even though it's not an eater i feel lucky to see a rare mushroom in michigan it's nice to find let's go find something else this video is for educational purposes only we're not harvesting this mushroom i'm just going to show you the id features of it it's it's a wonderful specimen that grows all over the northern part of the united states here in michigan as well this is out west it's called the laughing gym here in michigan we call this gymnopolis lutus grows on dead wood it has a yellow cap orangish sometimes it can be a little more orange than that is what i'm saying as it ages it'll of course deteriorate and start to turn darker the spore print is a rusty brown you can see spores right here on this ring zone which is near the top of the cap this is a identification feature yellow stem yellow gills yellow flesh yellow cap with a rusty orange ring zone near the apex if you were to drop a drop of koh on this it would turn red that is another distinguishing feature this mushroom is active however i'm told it's not that super active that a lot of people are hoping to use and research a couple of weeks ago i was meandering through this woods hunting mushrooms and i seen a splotch of orange it excited me and i thought maybe i had chicken in the woods lay out a porous sulfurous so i meandered that way and i looked at it and what was emerging was this brilliant brilliant orange mushroom and it didn't resemble any of the emerging uh sulfur shelf mushroom that i'd seen in the past so i did some research and i left it go for a few days and i came back and i looked at it and i thought maybe i had the extremely rare haplopolis crucius but i didn't have my koh with me to test it and so i returned a couple of days later and it did not stain red like haplopolis crucius wood it turned red immediately which excited me and then it turned black so that changes that but the only other mushroom that i can think of that's in michigan that could be this is inonatas quirksy i'm not sure i said that right so i'll have dawn put that latin name on the screen right there where i probably butchered the word but this is an inonatas it's a really rare mushroom i've never seen it before i've never seen the haplopolis crucious either so either way i was excited and it is interesting as orange as this is how someone could spot it across the woods and assume that they have found a layout of porous sulfurous or a chicken of the woods and lo and behold it's a polypore mushroom but it's certainly not chicken of the woods and a rare mushroom nonetheless and certainly belongs in this video i thought it was astounding the mushroom is so rare and i've never seen it before so if there's anyone out there who can correct me on this id please feel free to do so i'm pretty certain that's the only other thing it can be being that this is certainly an oak log and those two species those two rare species apollopolis atrocious and inonatas both grow on oak let's go see some other rare mushrooms in michigan here is a beautiful and in infrequent bloomer in michigan out west these are called pig's ears on the top of this you can see how it resembles of pigs here it's a clump mushroom i call them violet chanterelles see how violet that is you can see the spores being deposited right here if you're to cut this mushroom in half when it's fresh you'd see this really beautiful violet hue with white specks in it as this mushroom gets older it'll turn a cream to white the flesh will these can get quite large in clumps and the tops of this can fan out the violet chanterelle is an edible mushroom it's not a chanterelle it's a gomphis it's a delicious almost purple mushroom that is pretty rare in michigan or at least infrequent let's go see some others here's a mushroom that isn't necessarily rare but it is in infrequent at least in my area this is sarcodon and bricketus the shingled hedgehog or the hawkwing it doesn't have gills or pores but it has spines usually if you do a taste and spit test on this it's pretty bitter some people do eat them when they do a taste test and it isn't bitter they take them home and fry them up i talked to some people in colorado said that they've never had a bitter one out there i've also seen people in ontario have eaten these it's infrequent in my area i think it's a beautiful mushroom it's usually got a cream to grayish fertile surface the spines and sometimes this can take on a maroonish or red brown hue but that cracked top looks like shingles layered over itself which makes it stand out the hawk wing let's go see another mushroom a beautiful beautiful blue mushroom that is found in michigan i'm not going to call it rare but it is certainly infrequent i know i have only just recently found this mushroom after years and years of stomping in the woods i've never happened upon one this is lactarius indigo group i personally think it's one of michigan's most astounding mushrooms relatively easy to identify if you slice the gills or break the stem it will ooze not a lot but a little bit of blue latex substance and that will stain on the gills kind of a blue green the top of the mushroom sometimes can look powdery white and as blue as it is it's amazing how difficult it is to actually spot i wanted to leave you guys with this beautiful blue mushroom of michigan for this video of part one and i look forward to getting part two of the rare and beautiful mushrooms of michigan to you soon safe and happy foraging from david michael and dawn marie you

Channel: Found You Foraging

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Keywords: Fistulina hepatica, ox tongue, beefsteak polypore, poor man's steak, Mushrooms, Tapinella atrotomentosa, velvet foot pax, velvet roll-rim, Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, false chanterelle, Gymnopilus luteus, Gymnopilus junopius, laughing gym, yellow gymnopilus, Inonotus quercustis, Gomphus clavatus, violet chanterelle, pig's ears, pigs ear mushroom, sarcodon imbricatus, hawks wing mushroom, scaly hedgehog, shingled hedgehog, Lactarius indigo, indigo milky, indigo milk cap

Id: 9clnrCOm8kg

Length: 18min 33sec (1113 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 05 2022